A History of Assam c12.100

c12.100

The Ahom force under the Bar Gohāin on the north bank of the Brahmaputra, after evacuating Sāmdhara, retreated eastwards, laying waste the country and forcing the inhabitants to leave their villages, so as to deprive the Muhammadans of supplies in the event of their attempting to follow him. Mir Jumla, however, kept his army on the south bank of the river, and did not greatly trouble himself about the Bar Gohāin's troops, beyond sending occasional detachments across the river to harass his march and attack his camps. In one or two of these minor engagements the Ahom writers claim that the Bar Gohāin was victorious, but, if so, his success was not sufficiently great to encourage him to run the risk of allowing himself to be cut off from further retreat up the valley; and, as the Muhammadan army advanced up the south bank, he continued his retreat along the north.